This limited-edition Noir version arrived with a sleek black finish that's become a favorite among collectors, turning heads in any studio setup while echoing the raw aggression of the original Brute series.
At its core, it packs two analog VCOs—VCO1 blending sawtooth with Ultrasaw thickening, square with pulse width modulation, and triangle via metalizer for gritty harmonics, while VCO2 offers sine, saw, and square across three tuning ranges, complete with hard sync and linear/exponential FM from VCO2 to 1. The signal flows through the iconic 12dB/octave Steiner-Parker multimode filter (low-pass, high-pass, band-pass, notch) with Brute Factor distortion for that signature overdriven bite, shaped by two envelopes—an ADSR and a versatile looping AD—and dual LFOs with sine, triangle, saw, square, random, and slew random shapes. Hands-on control comes via 16 velocity- and pressure-sensitive pads, 16 encoders for tweaking, and a 48-point CV/gate patchbay with utilities like inverters, attenuators, and a VCA, all in a compact 19 x 11 x 2.2-inch desktop frame weighing 7.7 lbs, fully Eurorack-compatible with MIDI/USB I/O, audio in/out, and headphones.
Users love its intuitive sequencer—storing 64 patterns up to 64 steps for pitch, gate, velocity, pressure, or mods—with arpeggiator modes and real-time recording that sparks endless jams, though some note the envelope times max out quicker than rivals for slower evolutions. It's a powerhouse for beatmakers and modular heads craving immediate analog punch without cables everywhere.
